A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

absence Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 7.7 1.5 0 0 20.7 13.3
Number of occurrences2115 1 0 0 2 3
Number of authors15 10 1 2 2

Occurrences of absence in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
aken advantage ae the Queen's absence, an wir restin in the shade: on page 91

1 matches

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
The absence o a cage shoud be enough - on page 48

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
rther their own celebrity, in absence ae the tap men. Addison retal on page 27

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
nciple - whaur strangely his absence on page 41
Broun, furstly about his lang absence frae the kirk an why he did n on page 45

2 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
e de facto leid o the UK. Yon absence o legislation maks fur discri
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
tae justify this dumfoonerin absence o ony pretence at equality -
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
re the fuck did he go?’ The absence ay McDade leaves me in nae do
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
in gender neutral voice anent absence fae a female lover, which mic
Though adversity/absence micht scunner them, it can be
him, despite his unexplained absence […]”
Absence”, the 2015 edition gangs on
4 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ough ah wis surprised wae the absence ae the fuckin Lab. And fur fi
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
the Scots again after a lang absence cause a wis telt as a wean ta (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
oyed what was on offer in the absence (2021) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
d taken advantage o e Queen's absence, an were restan in e shade: h on page 89

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ta'en advantage o th Queen's absence, an were restin in th shade: on page 91

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
r, kis o the nigh on complete absence o the yaise o oor auld, yae t
1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
d tuk advantage o the Queen's absence, an wur restin in the shade: on page 92

1 matches

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
In the absence o' a guid ootcum tae thon pro on page 32

2 matches

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